Automatic registering-stamp



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O. G. MONTAGUE.

AUTOMATIC REGISTERING STAMP.

No. 319,008. Patented June 2, 1885.

U ITED STATES PATENT @r ucno CHARLES CARTER MONTAGUE, OF AUGUSTA, ARKANSAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,098, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed November '28, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, CHARLES C. lvIONTAGUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, in the county of lVoodrufl' and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Registering-Stamps; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to automatic registering-stamps; and it consists in a registering device which may be attached to a dotting, canceling, or numbering stamp, but is more particularly designed for a post-office canceling-stamp.

Figure l is a face view of my registering device A, attached to a post-office cancelingstamp. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same attached to the same stamp. Fig. 3 is a view with the face-plate and numbering-dials removed, showing the operating mechanism. Fig. 4 is a view of operating foot and plate. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the operating-wheels. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views.

My invention is described as follows:

Between two plates, A B,which are secured together by the usual posts at the four corners, are the operating-wheels of the dials 1 2 3, cperating-wheels 4 5 6, operating-plate 7, to gether with the springs and levers.

The ratchet-wheel 4 operates all the other wheels. As it moves round, finger it comes in contact with the cogs on wheel 5, and moves it the distance of one cog round. XVheelSbeing rigidly fastened to the same shaft with dial 2, it moves the said dial2 one notch round. This dial 2 has on its lower face a finger, I), which comes in contact with the cogs on wheel 6,and moves the same one cog round, and also dial 3 one notch round, as it is rigidly secured on the same shaft with wheel 6.

The plate 7 is secured in place by headed pins c 0, working through slots 0 c, which allows the said plate to move up and down. The said plate 7 is held down by the combined action of the springs e c, and it is forced up by foot 8 when the stamp is struck down on the (No model.)

letter or other thing to be stamped. The lower end of the foot 8 is hollow,in whichis inserted a piece of indiarubber, f, the object of which is obvious. This plate 7 has pivoted to its face a pawl, d, which comes in contact with the teeth of wheel 4, and is held down to its work by a spring, cl. When the plate 7 moves up, the pawld moves the wheel 4 round one notch, and when it has completed its work a pin, (1, drops into another notch and prevents the wheel from moving round any farther, and at the same time spring d drops into another notch, so that said ratchet-wheel will not be moved back by friction on the pawl (I when it moves down.

Vvhen the finger a moves the wheel 5 round, said wheel is heldin place by the pawl g,which is thrown in between the teeth by means of the spiral spring 9; and when the wheel 6 is moved round one notch by finger Z),said wheel 6 is held in place by pawl 9 which is thrown in between the teeth of said wheel by means of said spring 9. This spiral spring 9 is coiled round the post 9 and operates both of the pawls g and Every time the plate7 is thrown up it comes in contact with the long arm of the lever k, and throws the pin h into one of the notches in theperiphery of the dial 3, which, in 00111- bination with pawl g, keeps it from moving round until operated by finger I).

The indicator, when completed, is secured to the stamp C by a strap, D, which passes round the lower part of the handle of said stamp, the ends of which strap are bound to the plate B by means of two other straps, E E, which pass over the ends of said strap D, thence through perforations F in the plate B, and are headed on the under side of said plate.

'When my invention is thus completed, two strokes (one to ink the stamp and one to stamp the envelope) move the dial-plate 1 from Oto 1. Two more strokes move it to 2, and so on in the usual manner.

laving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a registering device, as above described, the combination of plate 7, having hollow foot 8 and rubber cushion f, slots cc', working on pins 0 0, spring (1, and pawl d, pivoted to said plate and operating wheel 4;, pin (1 secured in said plate and checking said wheel 4, and the strap D and the strapsEE, in the manner springs e and e, returning said plate to posidescribed, with its foot. 8 extending below the tion, substantially as shown and described. lower end of said stamp, for the purposes de- 2. In a registering device, as described, the scribed. I 5 combination of plate 7, having foot 8, rubber In testimony whereof I affix my signature cushion f, with springs e and e, lever h, pin h, in presence of two witnesses. and dial-plate 8, substantially as shown and CHARLES CARTER MONTAGUE' described.

3. The combination of the registering device XVitnesses: IO A with stamp 0, said device being bound to D. D. LEAOH,

the lower end of the handle of said stamp by T. O. BRUNSON. 

